10.26180/5eba6b6ad7d19 EUGENIA ALESSANDRA PACITTI EUGENIA ALESSANDRA PACITTI The Body Collected: A social and cultural history of human specimen collections and museums in Australia, 1862–2015 Monash University 2021 history of medicine specimen collecting medical education medical schools dissection social history of medicine history of collections museums collecting culture material culture history of anatomy History 2021-05-12 00:33:06 Thesis https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/The_Body_Collected_A_social_and_cultural_history_of_human_specimen_collections_and_museums_in_Australia_1862_2015/12286925 This thesis examines the role that collected human remains assumed in the production of medical knowledge and attitudes towards the body in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia. Located at the intersection of the history of medicine and collecting culture, it challenges previous scholarship that has considered collected specimens to be biological objects, to recast them as dynamic cultural objects. In doing so, this thesis found collected specimens to be not only deeply embedded in the fabric of Australian medical history, but also part of evolving debates concerning the uses of human remains in the present day.